“Ching Shih
(1775–1844) was a prominent pirate in middle Qing Chin, who terrorized the
China Sea in the early 19th century. A brilliant Cantonese pirate, she
commanded 1800 ships and more than 80,000 pirates — men, women, and even
children.”

“A Turin letter states that among the
Neapolitan provinces which have to contend with the dreadful scourge of
brigandage there is that of Cattanzaro, which possesses the advantage of having
a band which is led by Maria Oliviero.”

COUPLE: She “was so bloodthirsty that she voluntarily
performed the office of executioner on every captive doomed to death by her
hand. It is related that on one occasion, after stabbing three of her captives,
she collected the blood that flowed from their wounds in a jar and then poured
it over the head of her lover, telling him that that should be his baptism of
blood.”

“She had a band of devoted Haiducks with whom she committed
her robberies. She never went about otherwise than in man's dress, with all her
weapons in her belt and a rifle over her shoulder. Young, handsome, and a
perfect markswoman, she was the idol of her band.”

“Queen
of Stranglers” Marie Ret led a gang of brutal stranglers who preyed
upon primarily working class men and women. “The modus operandi was for
Marie to decoy the intended victim into the thick bushes surrounding the
fortifications. Once inside he was seized from behind by two
accomplices and garroted. To make assurance doubly sure the woman leader
herself plunged a dagger into the victim’s heart. After the body had
been stripped and the clothing rifled the corpse was cast into the
stagnant water of the moat.”

Excerpt from news report: “Mattie Bennett, in jail on a
charge of having murdered one of five men who have been found in the Neches
River, has confessed to Sheriff Landry that she was the head of an organized
band of negro women and white men who lured, drugged, beat and robbed many men.”

“With
a record of eighty-six murders to her account, the female bandit chief recently
captured by the Roumanian police, is now facing her trial. This young and
beautiful woman has terrorized the country for months at the head of a band of
ferocious robbers. All victims who attempted resistance were invariably killed
and the chief was in the habit of devising special tortures for persons who
refused to give up their valuables.”

“Marie
Semit was a schoolmistress of pronounced radical tendencies in the province of
Smolensk, when her revolutionary fever brought on delirium which became
epidemic. She organized a band of dauntless anarchists. These black knights
took to highway robbery under the command of Marie, who was attired in male
clothing.”

“The women confessed to being at the head of a band which,
during recent months, had robbed and murdered 40 people who had been decoyed to
the house by Olga, and mentioned thirty other peasants belonging to the band,
who were also arrested, while nine others escaped.”

COUPLE:
“Ten desperadoes were sentenced to death here today for the murder of more than
a hundred victims. Chief among the condemned was the notorious woman bandit,
Ekaterina Pishianova, wife of the leader of the gang, who himself was known to
the intimidated peasantry as “the Jack the Ripper of the Ural mountains.” The
woman was accused of killing her victims with an axe. The robbers had been
into a strong band of several score with rigid rules, the slightest infraction
of which was punishable with death.”

Anastasia Permiakova, a gipsy clairvoyant, with her husband
and six male and female accomplices, has been sentenced to death for the
horrible murders of 20 women and girls. Permiakova escaped from prison during
the revolution while serving a murder sentence. She then organised a murder
gang, pillaged villages and held up trains.

“Irmgard Kuschinski, maiden name Swinka (the name most commonly
used in reports on her case), a 36-year-old waitress was, along with accomplice
42-year-old Ernst Himpel (and occasionally
others), murderous robber who roamed Germany in the years following the end of
World War II, preying upon elderly women.”

An article published in Singapore
gives the name “Yoke Ying” and states that she was a large woman who got her
nickname from swaggering about with a hand-grenade on her belt and that the
government said she had been “involved in several murders.”

“Word reached New Delhi Saturday of the murder of 11
villagers in a revenge raid led by a woman dubbed India’s bandit queen.
Newspaper accounts from Rewa said the gang also wounded five persons in the
nearby village of Datia and carried off several others into central India’s
Vindhya hills. The gang reportedly was led by Putli [Putli Bai], a woman said
to be in her 20s who has become one of India's top public enemies. The
dispatches said Putli led her men info Datia Wednesday because she suspected
its inhabitants had given information about her to the police.”

“Otherwise known
as la Madrina, the Godmother, the Black Widow, Mama Coca and the Cocaine Queen
of Miami, Griselda Blanco has been heralded ‘The most bloodthritsy female
criminal of our time’. Born in 1943, Blanco committed her first murder aged 11,
was a prostitute from the age of 12, and went on to become a drug lord
specializing in cocaine. Known for her sociopathic tendencies and her
extravangant collections of fine art and jewels, Mama Coca was a major figure
in the ‘Cocaine Cowboy Wars’ of Miami in the late 1970’s. She is thought to
have masterminded over 200 murders in Miami during this time.”

“The known death toll is seven, plus one poisoning in which
the victim survived the attempted murder, as well as at least twenty swindles.
The number being indeterminate due to the dupes’ very reasonable fear of
violent reprisal from the “witch’s” male accomplices.”

2005 – Shirin Gul – Kabul & Jalalabad, Afghanistan –
gang which included her own son

“Shirin Gul, “The Kebab Killer,” was convicted in
Afghanistan of killing 28 men in collaboration with her husband and his in-laws.
The family was part of a large regional gang that specialized in stealing and
selling cars, particularly taxis. Accomplices were used to transport taxis over
the Pakistani border to the town of Miram Shah, where the cars were sold there
for more than $10,000 each. The three accused men admitted that they had
invited the men into their home with offers of tea and kebabs, which contained
sedatives. Then they would kill and rob them. According to some reports, Shirin
would also lure taxi drivers to her house for sexual intercourse. Her lover
Rahmatullah, her 18-year-old son, Samiullah, and four others believed to be
involved in the killings. Rahmatullah had murdered her first husband. Police
think her first husband, Mohammed Azam, was probably an accomplice in the early
murders but was himself killed when Shirin Gul and Rahmatullah became lovers.”

“Police have suspected Henderson was involved in as many as
five other murders and a number of other shootings. However, no other charges
have been filed. The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department claimed that
Henderson was a leader of the violent 12 Street gang who associated with gangs
from 24th street through 27th, 51st, and 57th Street. Their alliance was titled
"512", "5 ace 2", or "5 ace deuce". However, the
claims of the police were never substantiated.”

“Nancy Manriquez Quintanar “La Flaca,” 25-year-old arrested
in the municipality of Ecatepec, is linked to at least nine violent murders
committed in the eastern state of Mexico, as part of the criminal organization
‘Los Zetas.’”

“Zschäpe is said
to have had the indispensable task of giving the terrorist unit the appearance
of normality and legality among other things by maintaining an inconspicuous
façade at their respective places of residence and by securing their joint flat
as a safe haven and headquarters for their actions. In addition, she is said to
have been “significantly responsible for the logistics of the group”. Thus she
had managed the stolen money from the robberies and had rented caravans several
times, including a vehicle used in one of the crimes, according to the Office
of the Attorney General reports in the bill of indictment.”

“While Podkopaev is portrayed by many reports as the gang
leader, other accounts suggest his wife was the moving force behind their evil
acts. She refused to say why she hated policemen. One theory is that she had a
lover who was a policeman who left her for another woman. Police now suspect
that she later murdered the officer and his new lover.” [Will Stewart,
“Russia's Ma Barker and her family of middle class murderers: ruthless nursery
teacher, her dentist husband and their daughters ‘killed at least 30 people
including women and children,’” MailOnline (London, England), Sep. 17, 2013]

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The dates represent the year each of these female serial
killers was tried for her crimes. The term “free-lance killer” denotes a Nazi
who violated the official code of conduct by engaging in homicidal; acts for
personal pleasure rather than governmental duty.

Ilse Koch has not been included because there is – despite
her legend and the fact that she was indeed a vicious creature– no evidence
that she was responsible for the human-skin lampshades or other homicidal acts
attributed to her.

***

***

Kathrin Kompisch, Perpetrators: Women Under National
Socialism (translation of German title) explodes the myth behind the propaganda. – ‘The history of National
Socialism has long been reduced to one that blamed men for everything,’ says
Kompisch. ‘The fact is women were involved at all levels of the Third Reich’s
most infamous and brutal crimes . . . There were always choices, even within
the Third Reich, and women often made their own choices as much as men.” [Allan
Hall, “Nazi women exposed as every bit as bad as Hitler's deranged male
followers,” Daily Mail,
Feb. 11, 2009]

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Ever since her arrest in 1986, Aileen Wuornos has been
feminism’s favorite serial killer. Under the influence of feminist “helpers,”
Aileen’s ever-changing story came to match the standardized feminist narrative.
Wuornos, as she embellished her story eventually added a claim that all of the
eight men she murdered had in fact been men who had attempted to rape her and
that she needed to shoot them all the protect herself. Thus, ignoring the huge
number of female serial killers in the United States who preceded her (at least 99 in the 19th century alone), she was dubbed “America’s “first
female serial killer.” It was a lie, but few journalists cared. They repeated
the falsehood cheerfully.

On June 26, 2012, about 10 years following her execution in
Florida, a book was published memorializing Feminism’s most beloved serial
killer – with herown words.

The book is Dear Dawn:
Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, edited by Lisa Kester and Daphne Gottlieb.

The Huffington Post published an interview. The interviewer,
Ariel Gore,
regurgitated the fictional “America’s first female serial killer” claim. Here
is an excerpt from that interview that offers a glimpse into the feminist version
of reality:

Ariel Gore (interviewing author
Daphne Gottlieb : “When I first heard news about Aileen Wuornos’ killing
spree, I was a young feminist in California, hanging out with a bunch of other
young feminists, and Aileen did strike a lot of us as a vigilante hero. … There
was something terribly and morbidly refreshing in the news reports that: “two
women are being sought as possible suspects in the shooting deaths of eight to
twelve middle-aged men in Florida.”

Female Serial Killers were not even regarded as “rare” in
the early 20th century. In the year 1925 at least 8 cases were
reported in American newspapers.Three
of them (Anna Cunningham, Della Sorenson, Martha Wise) were caught and prosecuted
and were pictured and discussed in a single newspaper article. Other 1925
cases include, in the United States, Helen Geisen-Volk, and in other countries,
Mrs. Dvoracek (Czechoslovakia), Dinorah Galou (suspected, France), Vera Renczi,
(Yugoslavia), Antoinette Scierri (France).

***

Some other False “Firsts”:

Each of the following is called, in some sources,“America’s First Female Serial Killer”:

1820 – Lavinia Fisher – an early date, but research shows
that she probably did not commit any murders. She was, however a criminal and
was executed. (source for error)

Aileen Wuornos, executed in 2002, was not only not America’s
first serial killer, but she was not even the first American female serial kill
killer to be executed. How about Elizabeth Reed, serial killer, executed in
Illinois in 1845?

Start learning some honest
history of violence against women and men and girls and boys– the kind the overpriced education industry
kept you from knowing – here:

“Female serial killers … haven’t received anywhere near the
same amount of attention from the media or from criminologists as males have.
Even researchers on psychology have tended to focus on male populations.
There’s a common erroneous assumption that because females are “nurturing,”
they won’t be violent. But we’ve had female serial killers who have shot,
stabbed, smothered (with her enormous weight), and even used chain saws and ice
picks.” [D. P. Lyle, MD, “Forensic Psychologist Dr. Katherine Ramsland Talks
About Serial Killers,” The Writer’s
Forensics Blog, June 25, 2009]

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 6): Rome, Ga., April. 2. – Mrs.
Bertha Gossett Hill, 28-year-old widow, was indicted for murder here today
after two toxicologists testified they had found poison in the exhumed bodies
of her parents and her husband.

Solicitor General Henderson L. Lanham said the Floyd county
grand jury returned three indictments, charging Mrs. Hill with the murders of
Mr. and Mrs. James Hardin, her parents, and Leroy Hill, her husband.

The indictments came soon after Alabama Toxicologist C. J.
Rehling if Auburn notified Lanham that he had discovered sufficient poison to
cause death in the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Hardin. The bodies were exhumed last
week at Centre, Ala., on court order.

Lanham also said that an Emory university toxicologist had
reported the finding of poison in the body if Leroy Hill. Hill died February
14. The woman’s father died April 1, 1945, and her mother died August 13, 1945.

The solicitor general said he expected the case to come to
trial the week of April 15. Mrs. Hill was arrested on a felony warrant several
days after her husband’s death, when a coroner’s jury agreed that Hill had died
of poison.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 6): Rome, Ga., May 3 – Bertha
Gossett Hill, 29, under life sentence in the poison death of her husband, Leroy
Hill, was married to Wiley Gravitt, 21-year-old construction worker, in the
Floyd County Jail office today.

Gravitt is her third husband.

Judge Carl Griffin, ordinary of Floyd County, performed the
ceremony.

After the marriage, the bride was led back to her cell,
where she is awaiting the outcome of an appeal to the state supreme court.

Mrs. Gravitt was attired in a light blue dress she wore part
of the time during the trial.

She was twice convicted of murder charges in her second
husband’s death. She was also charged with the poison deaths of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A Hardin, but was not tried. They were buried at Centre, Ala.

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 6): A demand for trial on two
charges of murder was filed Saturday by attorneys for Bertha Gossett Hill, who
was convicted for the arsenic poison death of her husband in 1946.

Two criminal indictments charging murder of her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hardin, are yet pending in Floyd Superior Court,
but have not been brought to trial after her conviction in the death of Leroy
Hill in February, 1946.

Two criminal indictments chargeing murder of her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hardin, are yet pending in Floyd superior court,
but have not been brought to trial after her conviction in the death of Leroy
Hill in February, 1946.

Hicks said in his petition that his defendant had
“repeatedly” sought trial on the two other indictments, but had been refused.
He charged that her constitutionalk rights had been violated, and that the
courts had deprived her of the rights to parole.

The State Pardon and Parole Board will not act on an
application for aparole if a felony indictment is pending in the courts. Hicks
charges that his defendant is otherwise eligible for parole after having served
more than four years in Reidsville Penitentiary.

Judge Nichols issued an order that Sol. Gen. John W. Davis
show cause on May 18 why the pending cases should not be included in the July
term docket in Floyd Superior Court.

Efforts have been underway for months to have the woman
paroled after serving part of a life sentence imposed by a Floyd County jury
which recommended mercy after a first degreee conviction.

Leroy Hill died at his home on Old Summerville Highway.
Later, Dr. Herman Jones, state toxicologist, found a quantity of arsenic in the
stomach and organs.

Witnesses reported to authorities that Bertha’s mother and
father died under similar circumstances without benefit of a physician.
Autopsies bodies in a remote cemetery in Alabama allegedly alsO showed death
from arsenic.

Three indictments were drawn by a Floyd County grand jury,
but only one case ever came to trial. A year later, a new trial was granted,
with convictions and recommendations of mercy, in June, 1947. Bertha was
committed to the state’s women’s prison. She had been in Floyd County jail
since February, 1946.

FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 6): After more than 11 years in
prison, Mrs. Bertha Gossett Hill has woman an unprecedented third trial for the
1946 poison murder of her husband.

The 40-year-old former Rome dime store floor manager won the
new trial Wenesday when Cherokee Superior Circuit Judge J. L. Davis granted her
extraordinary motion for a new trial.

The jurist denied bail for Mrs. Hill after the state
announced it will be ready to try her a third time when the January term of
Floyd Superior court convenes. She will remain in the Floyd County jail where
she has been since she filed the motion for a new trial last September.

Mrs. Hill said she believes a new trial will prove her
innocent of the charge she fed her husband, Leroy, arsenic. She twice has been
convicted in Floyd Superior Court on that count and was sentenced to life
imprisonment both times.

Judge David read his decision from a three-page opinion in
which he pointed out that, when the case was before the Supreme Court of
Georgia on appeal in 1948, the court dfivided four to three on whether or not
the guilty verdict should stand. Four justiuces were for the verdict and three
dissented. He said the fact that the Supreme Court had been divided so near
evenly was enough to “generate some doubt in the mind of the trial court.”

Judge Davis also said the case had rested entirely upon circumstantial
evidence and “there is not to be found in the record any evidence that Mrs.
Hill ever had in her possession at any time any arsenic as alleged in the
charges against her.”

Also, he noted Mrs. Hill had served approximately one year
in jail and another 11 years in the state penitentiary under the verdict of
1947.

“However doubtful the cxourt may be as a result of the
evidence adjured on trial of the case, the divided opinion of the Supreme Court
on the issue involved in thecase, and
the fact that the defendant has been incarcerated for approximately 12 years,
any one set of these circumstances or all of them combined would not justify
this court in granting an extraordinary motion for a new trial in this case as
none of the facts are raised in this motion nor could be legally raised at this
time before the court,” the judge said.

~ Record Versus Jurors ~

Judge Davis said the official transcript of the second trial
record is inconsistent with the affidavits of the three jurors who say they at
no time vored Mrs. Hill guilty. He said the record shows that two of the three
jurors unqualifiedly stated to the court on the poll of the jury that the
verdict as rendered was their verdict. He added that the record is also
inconsistent with the sworn affidavit of juror J. L. Lumpkin but said “it does
reflect the reluctance on the part of Lumpkin to agress to the verdict and
strongly indicates that the verdict of guilty was not freely and voluntarily
agreed to by thids juror.”

“The law of this state requires the unanimous verdict of all
12 jurors should be freely and voluntarily acknowlkedged, without hesitation,
reluctance or evasive answers to the court,” Judge Davis said.

“In view of the doubt which is generated in this case by ba
careful search of the evidence on the trial, by the dissent of the three
justices of the Supreme Court of this state on the appeal of this case and the
obvious reluctance of the juror Lumpkin as disclosed by the official record in
the case to freely and voluntarily agree to the verdict, this court is
constrained to feel that more substantial justice may be had in this case by
granting of a new trial,” Judge Davis opinion concluded.

Mrs. Hill said sfter the short session that she was thankful
to Judge Davis and felt that her innocence would be proven.

“I only hope that each of the jurors serving during the
coming trial will be guided by his own beliefs rather than the beliefs of
others,” the 40-year-old former dime-store floor manager said.

Mrs. Hill was first tried for killing her husband in 1946.
Convicted after only 30 minutes of deliberation, she won a new trial on appeal
and was again convicted again in April, 1947. The second jury deliberated over
65 hours before returning a guilty verdict and recommending mercy.

Two indictments charging her with two poison deaths of her
parents were dropped in 1952.

An order signed by Judge Davis returned her to Rome on
August 25, and the new-trial motion was filed on September 30 bt R. A.
Addleton, Griffin attorney and former assistant state attorney general.

Basis for the motion was the sworn affidavits of three of
the second trial jurors that they at no time voted the woman guilty. The three
were J. J. Lumpkin. S. W. McKinney and the Rev. V. G. Smith.

Judge Davis signed the motion and scheduled the hearing for
November 25, after Floyd Judge Mack G. Hicks, disqualified himself because he
was the defense attorney during the second trial.

At the hearing Judge David said he wanted to study the case
further before making a decision he decision came three weeks after the
hearing. [error in this sentence is in the original]

FULL TEXT (Article 5 of 6): Bertha Gossett Hill, who has
served 13 years in prison for poisoning her husband, was freed this afternoon
under $5,000 bond after the state announced it would not be ready to try her a
third time next Monday as scheduled.

Mrs. Hill, twice convicted for the arsenic poisoning of her
husband, Leroy, in 1946, had won the third trial in the legal battle which was
removed almost a year ago.

The state, through Sol. Gen. Chastine Parker, announced
shortly before noon today it would not be ready to proceed with the trial
stated to open next Monday morning in Floyd Superior Court.

~ Bond Not Opposed ~

Because of the delay, the state did not oppose bond which
was set by Bud [illegible] (Bud) Foster, of Tallapoosa Circuit, due to preside
at the trial. The bond was signed by Davis Bonding Co. of Rome and Mrs. Hill,
and accompanied by her attorney John A. Frazier Jr. of Rome, walked to freedom
shortly after noon.

“I’m so happy, but it’s so hard to believe I’m really free
after all these years,” Mrs. Hill said after her bond had been signed. “It had
me worried quite a bit, but I have always felt it would all work out.”

Mrs. Hill said said she would stay in Rome for a few days
and clear up some business, but that she had no definite plans at poresent.

“I am proud that the solicitor consented and Judge Foster
set bond for Mrs. Hill,” Frazier commented. “It will give us a better
opportunity to prepare our defense.

Frazier stated, however, that the defense expects to be
ready whatever the case is called for trial.

Parker said due to the length of time since Mrs. Hill’s last
trial in 1947 and the difficulty in assembling witnesses, the state was unable
to complete preparation of the case by next Monday. He said a new trial date
will be announced shortly.

Jurors called for the week of court beginning Monday will
not have to report, the solicitor added.

Mrs. Hill, now 40 and once a dime store manager in Rome, was
first convicted of murdering her husband in 1946, and sentenced to life
imprisonment. She won a new trial from the Georgia Supreme Court because policy
holders in the company which insured her husband’s life served on the jury.

A second jury, deliberating more than 65 hours, found her
guilty at a second trial in 1947 and she was moved to Reidsville State Prison
to begin serving the life term.

~ New Trial Motion ~

Last August, Judge J. L. Davis of Cherokee Superior Court,
issued an order returning her to Rome and on September 30 she filed an
extraordinary motion for a new trial. Judge Davis had entered the case after
Floyd Superior Judge Mack G. Hicks disqualified himself because he served as
Mrs. Hill’s defense counsel in her earlier trials.

Basis for the motion for a third trial were affidavits from
three jurors who swore they had not voted Mrs. Jill guilty in 1947. Judge
Davis, ruling on the motion, granted the third trial last December 17.

In January, the state filerd a bill of exceptions asking the
Georgia Court to set aside the new trial order. But, last April 10 the high
court ruled the state cannot appeal from a judgement in favor of the defendant
in a criminal case, in effect upholding the trial order.

The state then announced it would begin the new trial May
18, and Judge Foster was named as the judhge to preside.

Mrs. Hill had remained in Floyd County jail since her return
here last August to renew her battle for freedom.

[“Bond Frees Bertha Hill As Third Trial Delayed – State
Announces Not Ready Monday; Date for Third Hearing to Be Set,” Rome
News-Tribune (Ga.), May 12, 1959, p. 1]

***

FULL TEXT (Article 6 of 6): Rome, Ga. – After sopending a
third of her life in jail, Bertha Gossett Hill, was ordered acquitted Monday of
charges that she murdered her hudband, a mechanic, with poison.

Mrs. Hill was first convicted again and given a life
sentence the following year.

Mrs. Hill was confined at state prison until August 1958
when he was returned to Rome and ordered to file an extraordinary motion for a
new trial.

Basis for the motion were affidavits of three members of the
last trial jury that they had not voted for conviction. A third trial was
granted.The Georgia Supreme Court denied an attempt by the state to block the
trial.

The prosecutor said the state was unable to prosecute a
third time because it could not locate needed witnesses.

It also appeared from the evidence that the defendant's
father and mother died on April 3 and July 13, respectively, in 1945, and that
after the death of the defendant's husband the bodies of the parents were
exhumed and vital organs of each were examined. The evidence further authorized
a finding that each of them died of arsenic poison intentionally administered
by the defendant, as in the case of her husband, and that her acts with respect
to them were prompted by the same motive, to wit, collection of life insurance.

***

See the article by Mike Ragland, author of Bertha Gossett
Hill’s biography for more details of Bertha’s outrageous career.